The Amtrak Texas Eagle: Fort Worth to Chicago including a stop in Marshall, TX

The way that the Rail Pass works is that each segment counts against your allowance of 10, even if that segment was added by Amtrak due to track work. So, technically speaking, this part of the trip is comprises of Segments #4 and #5 but for simplicity, we will just refer to this as segment #4! The dates for the Lakeshore Limited fell on a day for track maintenance and we transferred to an Amtrak bus upon arriving at the Albany New York station. Because it was mostly overnig

The scenery was fabulous but the staff made the trip even more memorable! Even if the trip was routine for them, they made it special...

Despite a few unexpected fits and starts while I returned to the DMV, I was back on the road or rather, the rail, again headed toward Chicago. And although a number of things did go wrong, some things did go right, after all, while visiting my storage unit right outside of Baltimore, I saw geese, my favorite! As I mentioned when describing Segment #1, I found out about this mysterious Rockville station. Keeping with the spirit of adventure tied to this 30 days of explorati